Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Solidarity

Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Solidarity

Chapter:

(p.91)
5 Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Solidarity

Source:

Cosmopolitanisms

Author(s):

David A. Hollinger

Publisher:

NYU Press

DOI:10.18574/nyu/9781479829682.003.0006

David Hollinger notes that in the United States the existing apparatus for dealing with cultural diversity itself feels increasingly anachronistic. Differences within communities defined by race, like those that separate the historical experiences of African Americans from African and Caribbean immigrants, have subverted the crude working categories of an older multiculturalism. The result is a questioning of duties to “our own kind”—whatever that has come to mean—and a pressure to think of identity in cosmopolitan terms: less as something to be preserved and perpetuated than as the voluntary formation of new and wider solidarities.

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